125 Killed by ISIS in bombing.

Omackeral

At least 125 people have been killed and about 150 injured in an explosion claimed by the so-called Islamic State group in Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
A car bomb exploded on a busy street in the Karrada district late on Saturday.
The mainly Shia area was busy with shoppers late at night because it is the holy month of Ramadan.


These animals have wiped out ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE people in this attack. Absolutely bonkers. Seems like they've actually used Ramadan as a type of 'bait' for this trap. Low life scum.

Samaris

Jesus, that's appalling.

Barry Badrinath

Samaris wrote: »

Jesus, that's appalling.

Don't you mean Allah?

Heh

Easca Peasca

125 people, incredible.

Iwasfrozen

The last snarls of a dying dog thankfully.

Omackeral

Easca Peasca wrote: »

125 people, incredible.

It really is. Literally 10 times more than the Charlie Hebdo killings.

JustTheOne

"So called" Islamic state?

So basically it's Islamic state.

dublinman1990

That is heartbreaking news. First Turkey earlier on in the week now this.

Regrettably, ISIS in this time is just a formidable terrorist group in which they can kill someone at any moment & at any time. The mindset of these thugs killing these innocent people lives is absolutely disgusting. There should be powers coming in from world leaders to try & stop them by any means necessary but I'm not holding out any confidence in that for the future.

Rest in peace to all who died. The heartbreak from your families is just getting more unbearable as they hear about your loss.

bear1

Utter ****ing scum. To just not give two fcuks who you wipe out just shows what type of ***** these people are.
Not one real man among the lot of them and are just a disgrace for humanity.
Cant wait for the day they are literally wiped off the face of the planet.

Omackeral

So-called, as in Islamic State isn't a legitimate country, which is what they purport to be.

The term "Islamic State" was objected to by Muslim groups in Europe. In Britain, members of the Islamic Society of Britain and the Association of British Muslims sent an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron suggesting that the group should be referred to as the "Un-Islamic State" or "UIS".

Samaris

McGruber wrote: »

Don't you mean Allah?

Heh

Let's not.

RobertKK

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

The last snarls of a dying dog thankfully.

If only.

There is no end in sight to terrorism.

This was another horrific attack and as usual it in innocent people paying the price.

Bob24

Omackeral wrote: »

So-called, as in Islamic State isn't a legitimate country, which is what they purport to be.

The term "Islamic State" was objected to by Muslim groups in Europe. In Britain, members of the Islamic Society of Britain and the Association of British Muslims sent an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron suggesting that the group should be referred to as the "Un-Islamic State" or "UIS".

Yeah but they can call themselves whichever way they want. No-one comes and say "the so-called Irish Republican Army", because they don't represent the majority of the Irish and are not an actual army. If these people want to name their organisations IRA or Islamic State , you cannot chose another name for them.

Barry Badrinath

RobertKK wrote: »

If only.

There is no end in sight to terrorism.

This was another horrific attack and as usual it in innocent people paying the price.

Agreed.

It's getting worse. There are no boundaries and it's near impossible to predict where will be next. It cant be contained.

The only certainty is, a lot more people are going to die.

nullzero

ISIS are simply a bunch of criminals hiding behind the veil of religious zeal in order to justify their own abhorrent behavior to themselves.
These cvnts are simply in it for the opportunity to kill and maim people, the Islamic extremist angle is of little relevance to these creatures.

Omackeral

Bob24 wrote: »

Yeah but they can call themselves whichever way they want. No-one would come and say "the so-called Irish Republican Army", because they don't represent the majority of the Irish and are not an actual army. If they want to be called IRA, this it what they are called.

I get your point but there's 1.6 billion followers of Islam, they probably wouldn't recognise this Islamic State for what it is. I think the transaltion from Arabic to English makes the name controversial. There's a decent read here in this article relating to the names of ISIS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant

Saipanne

Omackeral wrote: »

So-called, as in Islamic State isn't a legitimate country, which is what they purport to be.

Even a lazy understanding of the history of the "prophet" Mohammed will lead you to see where IS take inspiration from.

Was Muhammad "unislamic" too?

511

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

The last snarls of a dying dog thankfully.

Just like the Taliban? Oh, wait. We won't be rid of ISIS that easily.

As long as Islam exists, groups like ISIS will always exist. ISIS isn't a fresh idea, it's been done several times in the history of Islam and a new group will emerge to succeed them.

Muhammad created an Islamic state during his days and these nutjobs are imitating him. That's why they're doing this and the first Muslims were as violent as ISIS are.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Bob24 wrote: »

Yeah but they can call themselves whichever way they want. No-one comes and say "the so-called Irish Republican Army", because they don't represent the majority of the Irish and are not an actual army. If these people want to name their organisations IRA or Islamic State , you cannot chose another name for them.

The phrase "the organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army" was used to refer to them very frequently back in the day.

RIP to all killed, that seems like a huge death toll for one attack

Two Tone

****ing hell. And why kill fellow muslims?

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

511 wrote: »

Just like the Taliban? Oh, wait. We won't be rid of ISIS that easily.

As long as Islam exists, groups like ISIS will always exist. ISIS isn't a fresh idea, it's been done several times in the history of Islam and a new group will emerge to succeed them.

Muhammad created an Islamic state during his days and these nutjobs are imitating him. That's why they're doing this and the first Muslims were as violent as ISIS are.

Things have rather accelerated since the 80s though, it's not like Islam has changed since then but other factors have. Blaming it all on Islam is a bit of a simplification really. I'm sure if the same people in the same situation had the old testament to draw on that's what they'd be using to justify their actions.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Two Tone wrote: »

****ing hell. And why kill fellow muslims?

Wrong kind of Muslims. Not real ones as far as they're concerns. Majority of people they've killed have been Shia Muslims I think

Agricola

Just watching a short doc on Sky News about Bush/Blair and the 2003 invasion. If ever you needed proof that politicians literally make it up as they go along with rarely a back of a fag packet plan, then this is a perfect example. What an almighty clusterfúck those two tools started which we may never see the end of.

Conas

511 wrote: »

Just like the Taliban? Oh, wait. We won't be rid of ISIS that easily.

As long as Islam exists, groups like ISIS will always exist. ISIS isn't a fresh idea, it's been done several times in the history of Islam and a new group will emerge to succeed them.

Muhammad created an Islamic state during his days and these nutjobs are imitating him. That's why they're doing this and the first Muslims were as violent as ISIS are.

Rather than focusing on Islam, you should really be focusing on who's funding ISIS, and the individuals organizing and plotting these terrorist attacks. Laying the blame at the feet of Muhammad is laughable.

skywanderer

Over 400 million Muslims worldwide support Islamic State and adhere to hard line extreme Wahhabiism Islam, the true literal version of Islam as written in the Koran. As far as these people are concerned by committing these atrocities they are carrying out gods work against non-believers, Christians, Jews and Apostates. Around 25% of Muslims worldwide support Islamic State including here in Ireland where hate emanates daily from their Wahhabi Mosques, funded by Saudi Oil money to preach their Wahhabi hate.

lazybones32

Truly deserving of the name 'Daesh'.

Thank you Coalition Forces/CIA. Your particular brand of Freedom has enriched this World. If the West isn't going to intervene, at least stop hindering those who fight against these creatures.

Lithium93_

Agricola wrote: »

Just watching a short doc on Sky News about Bush/Blair and the 2003 invasion. If ever you needed proof that politicians literally make it up as they go along with rarely a back of a fag packet plan, then this is a perfect example. What an almighty clusterfúck those two tools started which we may never see the end of.

^^^^^^^^^ Exactly this, If Bush & Blair had left well enough alone, and not invaded under the pretense of "weapons of mass destruction" and had they left Saddam Hussein be and later Gaddafi, the West wouldn't be experiencing the blowback from the actions of hungry warmongers.

Omackeral

Death toll up to 230 now. That's a shocking number. All for poxy religion


http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/02/middleeast/baghdad-car-bombs/

Lithium93_

It's madness, there's a lyric in Megadeth's Holy Wars... The Punishment Due that sums up everything when it comes to this sort of idiocy on behalf of religion.

Killing for religion Something I don't understand

Omackeral

I read something before that says if you're willing to kill for your religion then just kill your bloody self and nobody else.

Elmer Blooker

Conas wrote: »

Rather than focusing on Islam, you should really be focusing on who's funding ISIS, and the individuals organizing and plotting these terrorist attacks. Laying the blame at the feet of Muhammad is laughable.

A very good post imo.
No one asks where did these terrorists get enough explosives to fill a truck and enough explosives to fill the next truck for the next terrorist outrage that will inevitably come.
Instead all we get are "investigative journalists" who come up with scoops such as "associates" of Putin like to wear Rolex watches and other meaningless drivel!

Duggy747

So one of them was a truck bomb, if you've ever seen videos of them detonating trucks packed with explosives then it's like a mini-nuke going off causing insane destruction.

200+ is an insane number of innocents they got.

Lithium93_

A quick Google shows Saudi Arabia & Qatar mentioned/accused as funding Daesh, and Vladimir Putin revealed last November that 40 countries, some being members of the G20, fund Daesh and their monstrosity's. Whole world's going to hell in a handbasket..

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/putin-shares-intel-g20-exposing-isis-financed-40-countries/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_ISIL

conorhal

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

A very good post imo.
No one asks where did these terrorists get enough explosives to fill a truck and enough explosives to fill the next truck for the next terrorist outrage that will inevitably come.
Instead all we get are "investigative journalists" who come up with scoops such as "associates" of Putin like to wear Rolex watches and other meaningless drivel!

They buy them with oil smuggling money from warlord controlled caches of weapons in destabilized states like Libya, looted them from the Syrian Army or simply picked them up after the Iraqi army ran away from fight after fight leaving everything behind them (from tanks to bullets).

Atlantic Dawn

It's getting very little coverage in mainstream media in Ireland, it's a shame the media have graded peoples lives worth covering from where they are from first rather than the amount of deaths.

Conas

Lithium93_ wrote: »

A quick Google shows Saudi Arabia & Qatar mentioned/accused as funding Daesh, and Vladimir Putin revealed last November that 40 countries, some being members of the G20, fund Daesh and their monstrosity's. Whole world's going to hell in a handbasket..

Saudi Arabia is considered to be an ally of the United States, that's what people have to remember.

So if the Saudi's are funding Daesh/ISIS or whatever you want to call them, how can the US ever hope to defeat, and ultimately annihilate ISIS, if they are close allies with it's chief financiers? and a nation who has one of the worst human rights record in the world.

The whole America and Saudi relationship is a sick and twisted one. On 9/11; 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, and Bin Laden was a Saudi, but the US did sweet f-all about Saudi Arabia. Instead they went into Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Pakistan, and turned a blind eye to Saudi Arabia.

Lithium93_

Conas wrote: »

Saudi Arabia is considered to be an ally of the United States, that's what people have to remember.

So if the Saudi's are funding Daesh/ISIS or whatever you want to call them, how can the US ever hope to defeat, and ultimately annihilate ISIS, if they are close allies with it's chief financiers? and a nation who has one of the worst human rights record in the world.

The whole America and Saudi relationship is a sick and twisted one. On 9/11; 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, and Bin Laden was a Saudi, but the US did sweet f-all about Saudi Arabia. Instead they went into Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Pakistan, and turned a blind eye to Saudi Arabia.

Without wandering into tin foil hatted territory..

The golden handshakes/exchange of briefcases loaded with cash must really be worth it if the U.S can look away and whistle nonchalantly at what Saudi Arabia are up to and their terrible human rights record..

I await the day the U.S finally say enough is enough and cut ties with Saudi Arabia, but I fear I may be dust before such a day ever comes.

Lithium93_

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Without wandering into tin foil hatted territory..

The golden handshakes/exchange of briefcases loaded with cash must really be worth it if the U.S can look away and whistle nonchalantly at what Saudi Arabia are up to and their terrible human rights record..

I await the day the U.S finally say enough is enough and cut ties with Saudi Arabia, but I fear I may be dust before such a day ever comes.

The decision back in the day to completely oppose Iran has had so much more blowback and impact than any other decision in history.

wakka12

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

It's getting very little coverage in mainstream media in Ireland, it's a shame the media have graded peoples lives worth covering from where they are from first rather than the amount of deaths.

Media didnt grade the victims live, society did. Media reports on and gives more time to certain headlines and stories in response to what the general population is most interested in

wakka12

It was reportedly a truck bomb, not surprised by the number of casualties with that information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTlCrPOxirA
This IRA bomb that was left in Manchester city centre gutted an entire street and would have killed hundreds and hundreds of people if approximately 80,000 people in the surrounding area hadnt been evacuated. It even still injured 200 people despite this

dublinman1990

Medina in Saudi Arabia has been hit by a suicide bomb according to BBC World News. The blast happened near the Prophet's Mosque which is known to be one of Islam's holiest sites.

There are also reports of shelling at Baghdad International Airport with a total of 20 explosions hitting the site. Also in relation to the Baghdad attack during the weekend; the BBC's death toll is stating 165 instead of over 200 from other news agencies though. It still doesn't defeat the fact this is a terrible tragedy to unfold for the Middle east right now in the space of a few days.

Fratton Fred

Lithium93_ wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^ Exactly this, If Bush & Blair had left well enough alone, and not invaded under the pretense of "weapons of mass destruction" and had they left Saddam Hussein be and later Gaddafi, the West wouldn't be experiencing the blowback from the actions of hungry warmongers.

The same way they left Assad alone?

That's turned out well....

Conas

Fratton Fred wrote: »

The same way they left Assad alone?

That's turned out well....

Assad has been fighting ISIS and other radicals since 2011. You get rid of Assad, ISIS takes all of Syria, and the situation will inevitably get more serious. But thankfully the Russian's are there, such a thing might not happen. Thank god for Putin.

Fratton Fred

Conas wrote: »

Assad has been fighting ISIS and other radicals since 2011. You get rid of Assad, ISIS takes all of Syria, and the situation will inevitably get more serious. But thankfully the Russian's are there, such a thing might not happen. Thank god for Putin.

Yep, good old Russia.

cowboyBuilder

Regarding the Bangladesh attack , police are apparently shocked over the elite background of the attackers

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36704853

I wonder how the left will blame the west on pushing these poor lads to commit such horrible acts.

tomwaterford

Fratton Fred wrote: »

The same way they left Assad alone?

That's turned out well....

TBF to assed while he's a butcher and most probably responsible for myrder on scale higher than any head of state in the world at the min


Himself and Isis are embroiled in a absolute mire of violence and fcuk knows what horrer stories are going to emerge,if it ever settles down

Fratton Fred

tomwaterford wrote: »

TBF to assed while he's a butcher and most probably responsible for myrder on scale higher than any head of state in the world at the min


Himself and Isis are embroiled in a absolute mire of violence and fcuk knows what horrer stories are going to emerge,if it ever settles down

And in fairness to the west, they intervened in Lybia to prevent a prolonged war, where ultimately hundreds of thousands would die.

You could argue, that similar intervention in Syria when it was a straightforward rebellion would have stopped Isis getting a foothold.

KingBrian2

The Islamic world is full of these death cults and the Shiite/Sunni divide makes them stronger and stronger. They will have to come to terms with the fact that Muslim scholars are presenting a distorted worldview of the Quran otherwise the rest of the world will group all Muslims as terrorists and correctly so after seeing all this on our tv and computer screens.

Smiles35

Turkey was so slow getting it's gear updated, when the Iraqis had their uprising in between the gulf wars they could have been right in there if they had modern tanks, kicking themselves after that they were and got a load of Leopard 2's a few years after.

KingBrian2

tomwaterford wrote: »

TBF to assed while he's a butcher and most probably responsible for myrder on scale higher than any head of state in the world at the min


Himself and Isis are embroiled in a absolute mire of violence and fcuk knows what horrer stories are going to emerge,if it ever settles down

It's interesting to note you consider self defense murder.

BunkMoreland

nullzero wrote: »

ISIS are simply a bunch of criminals hiding behind the veil of religious zeal in order to justify their own abhorrent behavior to themselves.
These cvnts are simply in it for the opportunity to kill and maim people, the Islamic extremist angle is of little relevance to these creatures.

This makes no sense. So your saying that they are all a bunch of serial killers who formed a group and use religion as an excuse to kill and satisfy their urges??

You don't blow yourself up if you just like killing.

Their main driving force is religion and ideology, I don't understand the argument that they are simply evil killers and nothing more.